Facing highly skeptical Republican senators, House impeachment managers are preparing a case to show the visceral evidence of the Capitol insurrection and how former President Donald Trump’s words and actions motivated the rioters to breach the Capitol, according to sources familiar with the deliberations. The Senate’s 55 to 45 procedural vote Tuesday is not deterring
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(CNN) –– El mundo superó ya los 100 millones de casos confirmados de coronavirus. Es una cifra que parecía casi inimaginable hace 12 meses, cuando el primer contagio acababa de confirmarse en EE.UU. Un año después, la pandemia muestra pocas señales de disminuir su dominio sobre miles de millones de personas en la vida cotidiana.
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Health officials are “extremely” worried about the new coronavirus variants that have been detected in the United States and what they could mean over the coming months, one expert said Monday night. “We’ve seen what happens in other countries that have actually had coronavirus under relatively good control, then these variants took over and they
Continue ReadingAntony Blinken said it is the honor of his life to serve as the top US diplomat after being sworn in as the newest secretary of state Tuesday. Blinken, a longtime Biden associate, was approved by the Senate with a vote of 78-22 earlier in the day. “My career has come full circle,” Blinken wrote
Continue Reading Many parents and caregivers remain worried about the safety of their children in schools amid the coronavirus pandemic, but experts from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that with the right mitigation measures, there is a path to low-risk, in-person learning. Experts have stressed the importance of in-person learning for students’ development
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Beyond Meat and PepsiCo are combining forces to develop and distribute snacks and drinks made with plant-based protein as the plant-based trend gains even more traction. With Pepsi, Beyond Meat — which already makes plant-based alternatives to beef and pork — will have access to a global distribution and marketing powerhouse. That means Beyond Meat
Continue Reading (CNN) –– El Senado de Estados Unidos votó para confirmar a Antony Blinken como el nuevo secretario de Estado este martes. Con la confirmación de Blinken, el presidente Joe Biden ahora cuenta con varios miembros clave de su equipo de seguridad nacional. La confirmación de la directora de Inteligencia Nacional, Avril Haines, se realizó el
Continue Reading (CNN) –– El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, realizó este martes su primera llamada a su homólogo de Rusia Vladimir Putin, según la Casa Blanca. De acuerdo a la información, Biden confrontó al mandatario ruso sobre una serie de temas que van desde un reciente ciberataque masivo hasta el presunto envenenamiento de Alexey Navalny.
Continue ReadingDemocrats are swiftly moving to unlock an arcane Senate budget process to pass a Covid-19 relief bill with just Democratic votes even as the Biden administration continues their outreach to Republican senators to make the bill bipartisan. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Tuesday that the Senate could move as soon as next week to pass
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Yuma Regional Medical Center (YRMC) announced Tuesday it will partner with the Yuma County Public Health District (YCPHD) to deliver the next round of coronavirus vaccines.
Continue Reading (CNN) — El presidente de EE.UU. Joe Biden firmó una serie de decretos y acciones ejecutivas que giran en torno a la política de «equidad» el martes, centrándose en la reforma policial, la reforma penitenciaria y la vivienda pública. Dijo que es «momento de actuar». «Es lo que los valores centrales de esta nación nos
Continue Reading (CNN) — Un juez federal en Texas bloqueó temporalmente este martes la medida del gobierno de Biden para suspender las deportaciones. Lo que asestó un golpe a una de las primeras acciones de la administración sobre inmigración. La derrota temprana, aunque sea temporal, demuestra los límites de las acciones ejecutivas del presidente Joe Biden, que se
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden held his first call Tuesday with his Russian counterpart, according to the White House, confronting President Vladimir Putin over a range of issues from a recent massive cyberattack to the suspected poisoning of the country’s leading opposition figure. The call, which occurred midday, amounted to Biden’s opening bid at diplomacy with one
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden announced a series of measures on Tuesday aimed at ramping up coronavirus vaccine allocation and distribution, including the purchase of 200 million more vaccine doses and increased distribution to states by millions of doses next week. With those additional doses, Biden said there would be enough to fully vaccinate 300 million Americans
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Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte handed in his resignation on Tuesday, in a tactical political maneuver that he hopes will allow him to build a new coalition. Italy was thrown into a fresh political crisis last week when Conte faced two confidence votes. He survived but lost his governing majority in the Senate after his
Continue ReadingVice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday spoke in personal terms about a “full circle” moment after receiving the second dose of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine at the same National Institutes of Health building her late mother had frequented for work. “I have the luxury of being here at this moment on just the fifth day
Continue Reading (CNN) — A partir de este martes 26 de enero, todos los pasajeros aéreos de dos años o más deben presentar el resultado negativo de una prueba de covid-19 para ingresar a Estados Unidos, anunciaron los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de EE.UU. (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés) la semana
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A gorilla at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in California has recovered from Covid-19 after receiving monoclonal antibody therapy and other treatments. Winston, an elderly silverback gorilla, and eight other gorilla troop members tested positive for the virus earlier this month after showing symptoms of “mild coughing, congestion, nasal discharge and intermittent lethargy,” the
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On the one year anniversary of Arizona’s first positive coronavirus test, the state added more than 4,700 cases to its ever-growing case log.
Continue Reading President Joe Biden will announce a series of measures on Tuesday aimed at ramping up coronavirus vaccine allocation and distribution, including buying 200 million more vaccine doses and increasing distribution to states by millions of doses next week, according to sources familiar with the plan. The US plans to buy 100 million more doses from
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